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Trump's claim diversity and Democrats 'could have' caused deadly collision draws backlash

Jan 30, 2025 View Original Article
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    10% Center

  • Reliability

    90% ReliableExcellent

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -23% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

71% : Trump claimed that during his first administration, "I changed the Obama standards from very mediocre at best to extraordinary."
52% : President Trump now oversees the military and the FAA.
48% : They put a big push to put diversity into the FAA's program," Trump said.
39% : "Minutes after saying the airport collision shouldn't be politicized, and that it should bring Americans together in common cause, Trump blames Democrats and DEI for the deadly incident," The Wall Street Journal's Alex Ward reported, which is in line with the paper's reporting. RELATED: 'This Is His Responsibility': Trump's Response to Deadly Mid-Air Collision Stuns Critics "I do want to point out that various articles that appeared prior to my entering office," CNN reported Trump said, at a press conference to address the horrific disaster that has shaken many Americans.
33% : "As families grieve, Trump should be leading, not lying.
22% : He's just got a good line of bullshit," Trump announced live in-air, before alleging Secretary Buttigieg ran the Transportation Department "right into the ground with his diversity.
14% : In addition to "DEI," Trump also baselessly pointed fingers at former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, as well as former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg.
6% : " "I put safety first, Obama, Biden and the Democrats put policy first, and they put politics at a level that nobody's ever seen because this was the lowest level," Trump alleged, NBC News reported, adding, "their policy was horrible, and their politics was even worse.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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